FW: PostScript?

["Smith, Norman E" <NORMAN.E.SMITH@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I once saw a rough equivalent of Nroff written in Postscript. It was
> something
> to watch a $40k (at the time), 40 page per minute Postscript printer
> operating
> at 4-5 MINUTES A PAGE. After seeing this, I consider formatting in the 
> printer a circus trick; it can be done but should be classified as an
> inappropriate
> use of the technology.
> 
> Norm Smith
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Sebastian Rahtz [SMTP:s.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:	Tuesday, September 01, 1998 10:04 AM
> To:	dssslist@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject:	Re: PostScript?
> 
> Jean-Baptiste writes:
> 
>  > 	I saw nowhere mention of a PostScript back-end for Jade.. Is there
> one?
>  > I saw on James Clark's Jade web page that he would like to see a PDF
>  > backend, why PDF
>  > rather than PostScript? Anyway if we have one, we pretty much have the
> 
> there are several formatting engines written in PostScript, by the
> way, so this might not be as hard as it sounds. but PDF is purely
> declarative, no programming language, so you cannot pull the same
> tricks. you have to write an entire text formatter in the
> backend. Good luck to James Tauber, I say; Don Knuth thought he could
> knock the job off in no time, and it ended up taking him 10 years. 
> 
> Wouldnt lout be a better source of material, by the way?
> 
> Sebastian
> 
> 
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